salt

The recent snowfall has left many locals longing for summer - including this bacon lover. I love restaurant hopping in the summer, when you actually don't mind parking your car three blocks away just to get in a walk after dining. One of those great places that we found one warm summer evening last year was Salt Tavern. This is a great, tiny place located inside a converted home. Two things grabbed my attention that night - duck fat french fries and goat cheese mini donuts with lavender salt.

The french fries?

Duh.

No explanation necessary.

The donuts? Wow. Such an interesting play on sweet and salty. It was a refined version of pretzels and ice cream, chocolate-covered potato chips...and the like. I can't wait until the piles of snow are gone, so I can actually dream of parking around some of these side-street restaurants such as Salt.

Until then, allow me to reminisce...